About this Work
About the Artist
American
b. 1912 New York
d. 1992 CaliforniaFelix Emanuele Ruvolo was born in New York City in 1912, and grew up in Sicily with his grandparents until moving to Chicago with his parents at the age of 12. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1938 received an invitation to participate in an American Federation of Arts traveling exhibition. This led to inclusion in two groundbreaking New York Museum of Modern Art exhibitions: the 1947 Abstraction and Surrealism and the 1951 Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America. Invitations soon followed from the Whitney Museum of Art, the Walker Art Centre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection of Art and numerous others. Ruvolo was an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1945 until 1948, when he moved to California with his wife Mardi to teach at Oakland’s Mills College. In 1950 he accepted an appointment as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until 1978. It was in Berkeley where Ruvulo began his large-scale abstract expressionist paintings with heavy impasto. He also became one of the favorite teachers in the department with students that included Walter de Maria, Mark di Suvero, William Brown, Paul Wonner and Ray Saunders among others. His works can be found in public and private collections such as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Chicago Art Institute, the Krannert Museum, the Walker Art Center, and the Oakland Museum of Art. His works have been appeared in national magazines and in anthologies published by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and Albright Museum in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum, the American Encyclopedia, the Dictionaire de la Peinture Abstraite, and Il Giornale D’Italia.
b. 1912 New York
d. 1992 CaliforniaFelix Emanuele Ruvolo was born in New York City in 1912, and grew up in Sicily with his grandparents until moving to Chicago with his parents at the age of 12. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1938 received an invitation to participate in an American Federation of Arts traveling exhibition. This led to inclusion in two groundbreaking New York Museum of Modern Art exhibitions: the 1947 Abstraction and Surrealism and the 1951 Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America. Invitations soon followed from the Whitney Museum of Art, the Walker Art Centre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection of Art and numerous others. Ruvolo was an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1945 until 1948, when he moved to California with his wife Mardi to teach at Oakland’s Mills College. In 1950 he accepted an appointment as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until 1978. It was in Berkeley where Ruvulo began his large-scale abstract expressionist paintings with heavy impasto. He also became one of the favorite teachers in the department with students that included Walter de Maria, Mark di Suvero, William Brown, Paul Wonner and Ray Saunders among others. His works can be found in public and private collections such as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Chicago Art Institute, the Krannert Museum, the Walker Art Center, and the Oakland Museum of Art. His works have been appeared in national magazines and in anthologies published by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and Albright Museum in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum, the American Encyclopedia, the Dictionaire de la Peinture Abstraite, and Il Giornale D’Italia.
